Elizabeth Edwards — a graduate student in museum studies from Hendersonville, Tennessee
Sean O'Connor — an attorney originally from St. Louis, Missouri
Kirby Burnett — a poker dealer from Prior Lake, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirby | $5,400 | $11,800 | $27,200 |
$30,200
2-day champion: $57,800 |
$27,200
30 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sean | $200 | $1,200 | $6,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
13 R, 3 W |
| Elizabeth | $2,000 | $3,400 | $5,800 |
$800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
9 R, 1 W |
| CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS | MUSIC ALPHABET | TV REALITY SHOWS BY WINNER | NEW AGE THINKING | LET'S TAKE A "TRIP" | YOU'LL NEED INSURANCE |
|
$200
[17]
BC
British Columbia
Kirby
|
$200
[8]
"A" is for a capella, from the Italian for "in" this place
the chapel
|
$200
[10]
In 2011:Country crooner Scotty McCreery
American Idol
Kirby
|
$200
[1]
"Hair" fans know this current "Age" is a 2,000-year period of evolution toward world peace & enlightenment
Aquarius
Kirby
|
$200
[6]
Since 1900, only 12 baseball players have won this by leading a major league in batting average, home runs & RBIs
a triple crown
Sean
|
$200
[23]
It's the term for the person entitled to get the proceeds of a policy upon the death of the insured
the beneficiary
Sean
|
|
$400
[18]
AB
Alberta
Kirby
|
$400
[9]
"B" is for bis, sometimes used to ask musicians for this
an encore
|
$400
[21]
In 2010:Bret Michaels, who wasn't fired but hired
Celebrity Apprentice
Kirby
Sean
|
$400
[2]
This term for receiving energy & info from other levels of reality sounds like redirecting water along a passage
channeling
Kirby
|
$400
[7]
A low-placed concealed cable used to signal a trespasser by triggering an alarm
a tripwire
Elizabeth
|
$400
[24]
Medical liability insurance is better known as this type of insurance
malpractice insurance
Kirby
Sean
|
|
$600
[19]
NS
Nova Scotia
Kirby
|
$600
[11]
"D" is for decrescendo, which means this is happening to the music
it's getting quieter (or softer)
Elizabeth
|
$600
[28]
In 2009:Chicken catcher Kevin Skinner, who wowed judges including David Hasselhoff with his singing
America's Got Talent
Elizabeth
|
$600
[3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a diagram of a person in lotus position with seven colored dots along its vertical midline.) Referring to its inner vision, the sixthchakraat the center of the forehead is also known by this other ordinal name
the third eye
Kirby
|
$600
[14]
Often used for devotional purposes, it's the type of artwork seen here
a triptych
Kirby
|
$600
[25]
These "tables" that take their name from the Latin for "record keeper" are used to evaluate life expectancies
actuarial tables
Kirby
|
|
$800
[20]
YT
the Yukon Territory
Elizabeth
|
$800
[12]
"L" is for lacrimoso, meaning the music should be of this mood
tearful (or sad)
Kirby
|
— |
$800
[4]
On Aug. 16, 1987 followers of Jose Arguelles gathered in various spiritual centers for the harmonic this
convergence
Kirby
|
$800
[15]
Destroyed by the Mamelukes in the 13th century, today it's a leading city of Lebanon
Tripoli
Kirby
|
$1,000
[27]
Franz Kafka's day job was as a bureaucrat administering this type of compensation, like for accidents
workmen's compensation
|
|
$1,000
[22]
PE
Prince Edward Island
Kirby
|
$1,000
[13]
"P" is for pizzicato, which informs the string players to do this, also a "P" word
pluck
Elizabeth
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Seen here is an example of one of these graphic mystical meditation aids whose name is from the Sanskrit for circle
mandala
Kirby
|
$1,000
[16]
This adverb sounds like it means clumsily, but it means the opposite in phrases like "flows" this way "from the tongue"
trippingly
Kirby
|
DD
$3,400
[26]
A film noir classic, or a clause providing for payment of twice the face value of a policy
Double Indemnity
Kirby
|
| INSIDE THE BRAIN OF MEGAN FOX | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE | THE OLD BALL GAME | ASIAN HISTORY | PLAY DATES | NAME'S THE SAME |
|
$400
[26]
Megan's corpus callosum connects the right & left halves of her brain, also called these, like halves of the Earth
hemispheres
Kirby
|
$400
[21]
A golf interjection, or toward the bow on a ship
fore
Elizabeth
|
$400
[6]
In rounders, the ancestor of baseball, a runner was put out not by tagging but by doing this with the ball--ouch!
hitting the player
Sean
|
$400
[1]
The Uji were clans of Japan; the Uji that won out claimed descent from Amaterasu, goddess of this heavenly body
the sun
Sean
|
$400
[16]
"M. Butterfly" & the nomination of M. Dukakis arrived in this year
1988
Kirby
|
$400
[11]
This star of "Bride Wars" & "The Princess Diaries" shares her name with Shakespeare's wife
Anne Hathaway
Sean
|
|
$800
[27]
A 2010 paper shows Megan's amygdala maintains her "loss aversion" when faced with decisions about risking this
money
Sean
|
$800
[22]
A band for around the waist, or a shot of liquor
belt
Sean
|
$800
[7]
The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the oldest of equestrian sports", dating to ancient Persia
polo
Sean
|
$800
[2]
Novosibirsk, one of the main cities of this Russian region, only dates from 1893; its name means "new" this Russian region
Siberia
Sean
|
$800
[17]
1973 brought Secretariat's triumph & this horsey Peter Shaffer play
Equus
Kirby
|
$800
[12]
The actress seenheregoes by this royal name
Jane Seymour
Elizabeth
|
|
$1,200
[28]
When Megan enjoys a fine meal, she's employing the parietal these, right behind the frontal ones
lobes
Kirby
|
$1,200
[23]
It means to strike with a very quick blow / Or to rock the mic like Eminem, yo
rap
Kirby
Sean
|
$1,200
[8]
The goal seenherewas used in an ancient Mayan ballgame at Uxmal, on this peninsula
Yucatán
Kirby
|
$1,200
[3]
Soon after WWII, he wrote to Harry Truman asking for U.S. help in Vietnam's struggle against French rule
Ho Chi Minh
Kirby
|
$1,200
[18]
Aptly, this O'Neill play debuted in 1946, as the Cold War was heating (or chilling) up
The Iceman Cometh
Kirby
|
$1,200
[13]
This ex-major league pitcher can thank the country singer of the same name for his nickname "the Gambler"
Kenny Rogers
Elizabeth
|
|
$1,600
[29]
The thalamus, part of this botanical-sounding part of Megan's brain, receives all sensory input except smell
the brain stem
Kirby
|
$1,600
[24]
A piece of wood, or to furnish with meals & lodging for pay
board
Elizabeth
|
$1,600
[9]
"Juego de Pelota", an 18th C. Goya tapestry in the Prado, depicts an ancestor of this speedy Basque sport
jai alai
Kirby
|
$2,000
[5]
Fire shrines found in Iran show that the ancient Parthian empire followed this religion
Zoroastrianism
Sean
|
$2,000
[20]
"The Misanthrope" is from this year London was burning
1666
Kirby
|
$1,600
[14]
This creator of the "Garfield" comic strip shares his name with the actor who played Jock Ewing on "Dallas"
Jim Davis
Kirby
Elizabeth
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Megan's higher functions use her cerebral this; when she "hears" a song in her head, she's using her brain's auditory this
cortex
Kirby
Sean
|
$2,000
[25]
Trash, or a Chinese ship
a junk
Sean
|
$2,000
[10]
Irish manuscripts of the 1200s B.C. describe this stick-&-ball sport that's now the national pastime
hurling
Sean
|
DD
$5,000
[4]
1946's Linggarjati Agreement gave grudging Dutch recognition to the autonomy of this island country
Indonesia
Kirby
|
DD
$6,000
[19]
In 1955 impatient Dodger fans got a title & the theater got this Tennessee Williams play about an impatient woman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Kirby
|
$2,000
[15]
This composer with a presidential name wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning "On the Transmigration of Souls" to commemorate 9/11
John Adams
|
The Carabelli & Durazzo families are considered the Hatfields & McCoys of this island
Corsica